MacOS – Issues installing Mcrypt PHP module

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I am trying to install Mcrypt PHP module but encountering some issues:

Version of PHP installed: 7.1.16
macOS version: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6

Is the following command that I am running correct?

Install the correct package, for me was 7.1.7 => homebrew/php/php71-mcrypt

brew install homebrew/php/php71-mcrypt

Best Answer

The formula you are trying to install is deprecated. There was an announcement the 19 january 2018:

By 31st March 2018 we will deprecate and archive the Homebrew/php tap. Unfortunately we have been unable to maintain an acceptable, consistent user or contributor experience and CI workload through non-core formula taps in the Homebrew organisation so we are continuing to migrate widely used formulae into Homebrew/core and encourage more niche formulae and options to be supported outside the Homebrew organisation.

Some of the PHP extensions are maintained by Kevin Abel in its Github repository but there is no mcrypt extension.

Moreover mcrypt is itself deprecated and is considered as an abandonware for nearly a decade. It is removed from PHP 7.2. Read this stackoverflow question for alternatives: mcrypt is deprecated, what is the alternative?

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I'm not familiar with OpenCart but you should check you path and make sure the homebrew php is the default.

In the terminal:

$ which php
/usr/bin/php
$ php -v
PHP 5.5.14 (cli) (built: Sep  9 2014 19:09:25) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies

$ which mongod 
/usr/local/bin/mongod
$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/mongod
lrwxr-xr-x  1  ----  admin  34 Dec  8 17:25 /usr/local/bin/mongod -> ../Cellar/mongodb/2.6.5/bin/mongod

In this example I've installed mongod from homebrew. I've never installed php but it looks like it exists on my system by default. I'm guessing your system is using the standard php and not the brew one.

Try running your server like this:

/usr/local/bin/php -S localhost:8000

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Don't uninstall the old php as it is /usr/bin and so supplied by Apple and so might affect the OS and Apple might reinstall it as part od an OS upgrade.

The binary install of php puts php in /usr/local/bin/php

To use it either use the full path or alter your PATH environment variable to have /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin

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